Senior Security Engineer - Vulnerability Research
Core
Hunt for previously-unknown vulnerabilities in Tanium software, drive them to remediation, and build agentic security workflows using frontier AI models.
Role type
Senior IC security engineer (vulnerability research)
Builds
Secure code, vulnerability discovery tooling (fuzzing harnesses, analyzers), and patch guidance for engineering teams.
Domain
Cybersecurity, vulnerability research, autonomous IT platforms
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Vulnerability research (source code review, manual pen-testing, fuzzing), exploitability analysis, secure code development, threat modeling, AI/ML workflow design, cryptography
Preferred skills
Frontier AI model application, reachability analysis, native code security (C/C++), cloud platforms (AWS/Azure), published CVEs/bounty findings
Technologies
Go, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, fuzzing tools, static/dynamic analyzers
Responsibilities
Decide attack surfaces and bug classes to target, triage and rank vulnerabilities by exploitability, provide patch guidance and pull requests, maintain threat models, build AI-driven research tooling, perform source code reviews and security assessments
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
